Radical 135

舌
← 134 Radical 135 (U+2F86) 136 →
舌 (U+820C) "tongue"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shé
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄜˊ
Wade–Giles:	she2
Cantonese Yale:	sit6
Jyutping:	sit6, sit3
Japanese Kana:	セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi) した shita (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	설 seol
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng
Japanese name(s):	舌/した shita
Hangul:	혀 hyeo
Stroke order animation

Radical 135 or radical tongue (舌部) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

舌 is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Strokes	Characters
+0	舌
+2	舍 舎JP (=舍) 舏
+4	舐
+5	舑
+6	舒
+8	舓 (=舐) 舔 舕
+9	舖 (=鋪 -> 金) 舗
+10	舘 (=館 -> 食)
+12	舙 (=話 -> 言 / 咠 -> 口)
+13	舚

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.

Kangxi Dictionary Modern Trad. Chinese	Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean
舌	舌

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.^[1]

References

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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